Anti-Gay CA Republican: ‘I’m Gay’

Remember the story last week about California State Senator Roy Ashburn, the Republican “family values” anti-gay politician who was arrested for driving drunk after leaving a Sacramento gay nightclub with an “unidentified male?”

Well, today, Ashburn uncloseted himself: Capitol Alert: Sen. Roy Ashburn: ‘I’m gay’.

“I’m gay,” Ashburn told KERN radio host Inga Barks in an interview this morning. “Those are the words that have been so difficult for me for so long.”

“For so long” is right; for years Ashburn voted against every gay rights bill that crossed his desk, while carrying on a secret gay lifestyle. His excuse:

Ashburn said on the radio show: “My votes reflect the wishes of the people in my district. I have always felt that my faith and allegiance was to the people, there, in the district, my constituents. And so as each of these individual measures came before the Legislature I cast ‘no’ votes, usually ‘no’ votes, because the measures were … almost always acknowledging rights or assigning identification to homosexual persons.”